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[forsaken1111]

The idiot survied! Though if you look at his injuries he was caught in cloud of boiling magma.  So either the rock superheated and turned to magma when it landed or its a bug.  I prefer the first explanation though.

Well I say he survived, he's currently in the corpse stockpile after months of surgery by "house" and his team.  Apparently soap is actually important to prevent infection.  And having some before surgery was started would have saved his and my mason's lives.

Entirely possible that it punched through to some magma. When rock hits a liquid during a cavein, the liquid teleports to the top of the rock.

[iwog]

Entirely possible that it punched through to some magma. When rock hits a liquid during a cavein, the liquid teleports to the top of the rock.

I wish that were true but the cavern is pretty boring, only water, space and some rock from what I saw.  I found the real reason whilst browsing "What's going on in your fort?"

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"The war dog is caught in a cloud of boiling magma!"

Is that normal?  For the record, the dog was on the surface, and I haven't struck magma yet.  This was during a cave-in.

This happens to me a lot too. No idea what the cause of this bug is, but the boiling magma cloud doesn't seem to have any effect, so whatever.

According to what I've read, it's caused by all rock and soil materials having "boiling magma" as their gas state name in the RAWs. The stone is 'vaporized' into dust during a collapse, causing the 'boiling magma' messages.

[Dorf3000]

Just a tip for anybody having problems with dwarves digging stupidly when you designate everything at once: put your miners in a burrow that covers only the first level that you're digging.  When they're done, extend the burrow one more level, repeat, and finally delete the burrow at the end.  They'll only dig where they're allowed to go.